New Head Of BBC Radio 4 Is ‘Highest-Ranking Woman In British Radio’

“The BBC played it safe by appointing a corporation veteran of 34 years’ experience to the coveted role of controller of Radio 4”: Gwyneth Williams, who had been the director of Enlish-language programming for the BBC World Service. “The appointment of someone with vast radio production experience will please Radio 4’s core audience who are famously resistant to change.”